Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first seated figure on the left is delicately poking the back of the man in front to ask what is going on, and the latter is trying to see over the towering headdress of the fat man in front of him. Two of the seated figures meditatively finger their beads. The last on the right, losing interest, toys with his earplug...
...acres of vineyards in cultivation near the confluence of the Little Miami and Ohio rivers. His "sparkling Catawba" at $12 a case sold 150,000 bottles a year. This frontier curiosity was wiped out by the Civil War. Great U. S. champagne country now is the Finger Lakes region of New York State...
Principal worry of the American Champagne Guild, whose members include the big Finger Lakes producers, is the usurpation of the name "champagne"' by makers of white sparkling wine fermented in tanks.* True champagne must be fermented in bottles, each bottle twisted lovingly in its rack some 200 times for proper sedimentation...
...redeeming feature of the second movie, "Accusing Finger" is that it can be avoided. It is a death house drama involving the reform of a cold-blooded public prosecutor. Those who go to see "Wedding Present" should plan carefully to miss this dull affair...
...great fortune, lived to be 99. He painted Chicago's Cupid at the age of 85. Announcing that he began to understand what painting meant only after he passed 90, in his later years he worked on seven or eight pictures at once, impatiently used his finger tips more than his brushes in spreading paint. For grandiloquent allegory Education of Cupid has few equals in the U. S., perhaps only Venus and the Lute Player, now in the Metropolitan, The Rape of Europa, bought years ago by Boston's canny Mrs. Jack Gardner, and Judith with the Head...